The kids are all right

Movie
German title	The kids are all right
Original title	The kids are all right
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	2010
length	106 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12 ; JMK 12
Rod
Director	Lisa Cholodenko
script	Stuart Blumberg , ; Lisa Cholodenko
production	Gary Gilbert , ; Jordan Horowitz , ; Jeffrey Levy-Hinte , ; Celine Rattray , ; Daniela Taplin Lundberg
music	Nathan Larson , ; Craig Wedren
camera	Igor Jadue-Lillo
cut	Jeffrey M. Werner
occupation
	Julianne Moore : Jules; Annette Bening : Nic; Mark Ruffalo : Paul; Mia Wasikowska : Joni; Josh Hutcherson : Laser; Yaya DaCosta : Tanya; Rebecca Lawrence : Brooke; Eddie Hassell : Clay; Kunal Sharma : Yeah;
synchronization

The Kids Are All Right is an American comedy film from 2010. Julianne Moore and Annette Bening star as a lesbian couple.

action

Jules and Nic have been a married lesbian couple in California for many years. Joni and Laser's mothers used the same anonymous sperm donor. Jules took care of the children for years, while Nic worked successfully as a gynecologist. Daughter Joni is 18 years old and is about to go to college . Son Laser is 15 years old and wants to know who his biological father is. Since Joni can get this information from the sperm bank at the age of 18 , he asks for their help. When the sperm bank asks the donor, the donor agrees that the children can contact him. The three meet. The attractive Paul runs a successful organic restaurant and is a bon vivant who has never had a steady relationship. His current girlfriend is the pretty Tanya. Paul is curious to get to know his children.

After the first meeting with him, Laser tells his mothers about the meeting with the sperm donor. At first they are frightened, but then invite Paul to dinner. Jules, who is about to set up a company in the landscape architecture sector , finds her first customer in Paul; Nic is not very enthusiastic. Jules begins redesigning Paul's neglected garden. Meanwhile, the two get closer and start an affair with each other.

Jules and the children spend a lot of time with Paul. Nic believes Paul is undermining her authority as a mother, e.g. B. takes Joni on his motorcycle even though she has forbidden it. After a heated argument between the two mothers, Nic suggests relaxing the situation with a dinner for the entire family at Paul’s. At first, the evening is very harmonious, so that Nic and Paul even get closer. But then Nic finds Jules' hair in Paul's bathroom and bedroom and thus discovers the relationship between Jules and Paul.

At home, Nic confronts Jules with her discovery. She initially denies, finally admits the affair, but insists that she has not become straight and not in love; she only needed recognition once. Nic is angry and sad.

Joni and Laser blame their mother Jules. Jules now spends her nights on the sofa in the living room. When Paul suggests to Jules to divorce and move in with the children, she indignantly refuses and ends the affair. One last attempt by Paul to maintain contact ends with Nic angrily calling him an intruder; if he is looking for a family, he should start his own. In the late evening Jules admits her mistakes and asks Nic and the children to forgive her.

The next morning the family takes Joni to college. When they say goodbye to their daughter, the two women make up again. On the way back, Laser asks his mothers not to separate because they are too old for that. Jules and Nic smile at each other and take hands.

backgrounds

The film premiered on January 25, 2010 at the Sundance Film Festival . The international premiere took place on February 17, 2010 at the Berlinale . It was released in the US on July 7, 2010 and in Germany on November 18, 2010.

In Singapore , where there is only one copy, the comedy is only released from the age of 21.

synchronization

The film was set to music at RC Production Kunze & Wunder based on a dialog book and directed by Christoph Cierpka.


role	actor	Voice actor
Jules	Julianne Moore	Petra Barthel
Nic	Annette Bening	Traudel Haas
Paul	Mark Ruffalo	Norman Matt
Joni	Mia Wasikowska	Janin Stenzel
laser	Josh Hutcherson	Ricardo Richter
Tanya	Yaya DaCosta	Sanam Afrashteh
Brooke	Rebecca Lawrence	Kaya Marie Möller
Clay	Eddie Hassell	Leonhard Mahlich
Yeah	Kunal Sharma	Dirk Petrick

Reviews

The reception of the film was almost unanimously positive. According to Rotten Tomatoes , 93 percent of all critics rated the film positively. According to the US reviews, the German critics were also enthusiastic:

At the time of the German theatrical release, Die Zeit wrote that the film was “wonderful cinema for actresses”, and further: “The Kids Are All Right is a small masterpiece of dialogue directing and observation, a film that is not embarrassed to draw energy and inspiration from the performances . "

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ruled that this was "definitely a film that will get you through the winter."

Die Welt described the film as a “wonderful comedy that only seems light and yet offers a lot of depth. And great mimes on top of that, especially Mums Bening and Moore. "

The Tagesspiegel noted: "Lisa Cholodenko's sunny family comedy 'The Kids Are All Right' captivates with great actors and consistently successful dialogues that should elicit a smile from even the most dogmatic Heten-Fundis."

The Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote that the director “does not deal with a topic, but draws characters. She does this with empathy, with a feeling for moods, for moments of beauty and embarrassment, of alert self-confidence and hidden self-denial. She has brilliant actors: Julianne Moore, Annette Bening, Mark Ruffalo. " The end, however, shows " a realistic and true view. But it's a sad realism that recovers all the utopian moments that flashed in the story. There is no paradigm shift when the unconventional has to submit to the most conventional in order to prove its innocence. "

The Neue Zürcher Zeitung called the film “the most amusing and touching American cinema piece for a long time [...] It has been a long time since you could see characters in the cinema who looked so authentic. On the one hand, this is due to the lightly handwritten script that the director wrote together with her co-author Stuart Blumberg and in which no situation is forced and no dialogue seems fake. Most importantly, however, Cholodenko united an ensemble of wonderful actors, in which each member brings life to a very distinctive character. [...] Cholodenko's trick is to give her basically banal everyday story great truth through close observation, which is also shown in the fact that the characters act against expectation and thus every cliché of the “typical” Californian - with regard to the im Land high ecological correctness - challenge. The result is a multifaceted picture that is particularly convincing due to its flaws, because it is all too human. "

Awards

The film ran outside of the competition at the Berlinale and won the Teddy Award there . Annette Bening (Best Actress) and Mark Ruffalo (Best Supporting Actor) received the New York Film Critics Circle Award , and the screenplay also received this award. Further honors:

Academy Awards 2011